Right at about 0%. They are almost certainly special agents for the State Department’s Diplomatic Security (DS Agents). Not a great wardrobe but let’s not compare them to mercenaries.

We do though :( source; I’ve done it. On the plus side it’s really easy to park my Beat legally

From a West Point graduate: Lee was a fucking traitor to his country and no amount of tactical prowess should ever redeem his name. Whenever introduced in conversation or otherwise, one should always include this. For a similar take see also: Rommel. You can and should never divorce soldiers from the cause they…

“Another system looked at for the shore landing support mission had simple barges equipped with MLRS launchers. Throwing tens of thousands DPICM grenades, and/or unitary rounds, or Guided MLRS missiles. Not sexy enough. Plus the Navy has always had the “not invented here” attitude. The GMLRS gives a range out to 60km.…

*the Zumwalt’s cannon is 155mm, not a 5", though Raytheon is developing a 5"/127mm version of the Excalibur round. Definitely still not big by naval standards though.

Haha that makes even less sense to me then. The Army’s 155s also use separate powder/projectiles. It makes you wonder what it is that makes it 1000% more expensive, and what is unique to the LRLAP that allows it the range they are stating? The longer barrel could help, and additional charges on top of a…

The block 1B actually does (and 1A-2 before it http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2012annual_psr/Milner.pdf), and rocket assisted projectiles have been around for a while. I’m not sure what special sauce the navy was using in their round for the extra range, but it’d be interesting to find out. I assume the cannon on the…

For the record, the unit cost of the Army’s 155mm Excalibur round is under $70k for Block 1B (so less than 10% the cost), and 30 miles is only its official range. It’s a great, combat proven round, and the navy is crazy for not going with it in the first place. There’s always room for improvement.

I’m in for $20

See also; Baylor

Wow. That was a foolish argument. Are you trying to claim that NASA never lost a payload? Because I don't know how to be the one to tell you, but they have. With casualties. See: Apollo 1, STS 51-L (Challenger), STS 107 (Columbia), etc. Why can't we have both? Fund NASA, and have some hard charging privateers?

How are the new Univision overlords so far?

The correct answer here other than the TVR Sagaris is the Morgan 3 Wheeler...

This is a great article señor torchinsky. This is good jalopnik. Even though my brain hurts, I’ll take commentary and intelligent analysis any day over “cop in China puts down cone, what happens next will amaze you” <video of something aggregated from somewhere else> </video>. Please don't stop.

Haha yeah, that was gold. My favorite part for sure.

Related; today Waco PD arrested recent grad and star DE Shawn Oakman on Sexual Assault charges. Is someone going to do something about this at some point? DoJ, NCAA, anyone?

Haven't read the article yet, just glad to see you're alive Tyler! #tylerisfree!

But for serious. Where's Tyler? #freetyler

Yeah, the thing is though...that doesn’t even account for exchange rates. Reservation costs varied country to country. So IIRC a reservation in the UK would cost you £1,000 or ~$1,43oish today. That’s a hefty difference country to country.

Watching this loop of insufferable people is beginning to get old...still excited though.